This readme file describes the replication files for "Financial Crisis and Female Entrepreneurship: Evidence from South Korea,"
by Jungho Lee (jungholee@yonsei.ac.kr) and Sunha Myong (sunhamyong@smu.edu.sg).

The files consist of three parts: (1) STATA data, (2) STATA do files, and (3) other files. 

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The STATA data files include:
1. Files for South Korean district codes (2000geo, geo1985_crosswalk, geo1990_crosswalk),
2. Files for South Korean industry classification (ksic4to8, ksic5to8, ksic6to8),
3. File for South Korean Consumper Price Index (cpi),
4. Files for South Korean map coordinates (korea_coordinates2, korea_data2),
5. Files from Population and Housing Census 1995 and 2000 (censusdata1995, censusdata2000),
6. File from Social Survey 1993-2005 (socialsurveydata),
7. File from Wage Structure Survey 1980-2015 (wagedata), 
8. File from Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 1996 (expendituredata).

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The STATA do files include:
1. gendata.do: extracts variables from the restricted version of the Mining and Manufacturing Survey (https://doi.org/10.23333/P.101009.001).
2. gendata_bank.do: extracts the number of bank establishments from the restricted version of the Census on Establishments (https://doi.org/10.23333/P.101037.001).
3. gendata_service.do: extracts the number of establishments in the service sector from the restricted version of the Census on Establishments (https://doi.org/10.23333/P.101037.001).
4. main_analysis.do: uses the extracted data from the above do files (gendata.do, gendata_bank.do, and gendata_service.do) and generate main figures and tables in the paper. The following data files are also used as inputs: (a) cpi, (b) geo1985_crosswalk, (c) geo1990_crosswalk, (d) ksic4to8, (e) ksic5to8, (f) ksic6to8.
5. gen_map.do: generates Figure 2(a). The followig files are used as inputs: (a) Korea_data2, (b) Korea_coordinates2, (c) 2000geo.
6. Table2.do: provides summary statistics used in Table 2. The following files are used as inputs: (a) censusdata1995, (b) censusdata2000.
7. Figure8.do: generates Figure 8. The following file is used as an input: (a) socialsurveydata.        
8. Figure9b.do: generates Figure 9b. The following file is used as an input: (a) wagedata.   
9. TableD1.do: generates Table D1. The following file is used as an input: (a) expendituredata.

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The other files include:
1. unemployment.csv: contains data for Figure 9(a). 
2. oecd_lfp_.csv: contains data for Figure 9(c). 
3. enrolment_tertiary_all_programs.csv: contains data for Figure 9(d).

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